| Visual limits of the human brain and the visual | | | | in the VR, they could put on a set of sunglasses, |
| processing time is quite evident. This why animals | | | | which also blocked out the unimportant |
| have camouflage skin, humans get headaches at | | | | information in the real world. At this point the |
| trade shows and why video or game players will | | | | individual with new training and wearing such a |
| be the fighter pilots of the future. | | | | device and I use sun glasses only because there |
| There are many theories and why this is, one | | | | is no such device other than the HUD systems |
| good paper on the subject is; modeling visual | | | | used in aerospace or the new military gear to be |
| latencies, masking and synchronization: by G. | | | | used in future wars battlespaces in the net-centric |
| Bugmann and J. G. Taylor. Some other questions | | | | fusionary world of blue force-red force tracking. |
| that one would have in reviewing such data would | | | | Once the participant is ready to take on the real |
| be whether the problem occurs at the eye or | | | | world with the new eye assisted gear, the over |
| within the brain. Or is there a problem with the | | | | all field of vision could be increased to include 360 |
| communication between the two or is there so | | | | degree information, without over taxing the brain. |
| much information involved in interpreting the data | | | | It would only be a matter of getting use to the |
| while the eye is focusing on the objects definition | | | | thought of having eyes in the back of your head, |
| and determining it's distance, size, shape, weight, | | | | like your third grade teacher, who always know |
| etc. that the brain is working very quickly using | | | | when you were up to something. With the proper |
| previous experience and historical data from | | | | attachments you would be super human in both |
| memory to put together the pieces while | | | | the real world and the Virtual Reality World. Of |
| simultaneously it registers the thought? And when | | | | course you would need to practice using these |
| you consider all this data coming in and being | | | | devices because seeing behind you is not a human |
| processed it is actually a wonder the brain can | | | | characteristic. So our evolutionary process did not |
| process it all this fast anyway? It has been said | | | | develop in such a way as to account for this. Yet |
| that the brain spends up to 45% of its random | | | | with the freed up allocated space in the brain |
| access memory in the visual section of the brain. | | | | used for processing the visual data, you should be |
| For the brain to work faster than it does with the | | | | able to more than compensate for the new skill |
| visual information you might need a better or | | | | and increased unusual data set. |
| different type of vision. | | | | It would certainly be interesting if some sports |
| Perhaps a system which takes objects of little | | | | were played with surround a sound vision, such as |
| importance and simply makes them less defined | | | | a basketball game, soccer, Tour de France, |
| (augmented reality) and those of more | | | | Hockey, etc. Since mankind has been at the top |
| importance will then get the required scrutiny | | | | of the food chain for a while, the eyes facing |
| freeing up the RAM in the brain so there is less | | | | forward like other species of hunters is not |
| information to process, meaning some of the | | | | unique. If mankind was a prey species then we |
| work that is being done, is eliminated since it is | | | | would be much more apt to be constantly looking |
| not important, this would also allow for additional | | | | over our shoulder and probably have evolved in |
| free space for thinking about what one does with | | | | such a way as to have our eyes on the far |
| the rest of the information. Also meaning quicker | | | | edges of our skull to see behind us too. Since the |
| response time from brain to muscle to action. | | | | eyes focus and cross in front of us, we see the |
| This could be tested very easily in Virtual Reality, | | | | worked differently and have additional abilities to |
| where the environment is artificial and certain | | | | judge distance, even though one could argue if |
| objects were made to be gray scale, while the | | | | they had ever been rear ended by an oriental |
| game player would learn that those gray scales | | | | member of our species at an intersection or on |
| contain information of no importance so as to not | | | | the highway? Although that is not very PC, no |
| focus on them. Then once the person was | | | | one can deny it is not totally apropos, true and |
| proficient at whatever task was being performed | | | | somewhat funny. Think about it. |